How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel Setting & Symbolism

This Study Guide consists of approximately 23 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more -
everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel.

In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time is Marcel Proust's masterpiece of French literature. It is a novel in seven volumes. It is one of the longest novels ever written. An alternate title for the novel is Remembrance of Things Past.

MLP

Marquis de Lau was a well-known member of French social circles whom Proust was acquainted with. Proust claimed that in a painting by Domenico Ghirlandio, called the Old Man and the Boy, he saw the Marquis de Lau as the "Old Man." The Marquis de Lau Phenomenon or MLP is thus the tendency for the viewer/reader to see parts of themselves or their experience in works of art.

All-England Summarise Proust Competition

The All-England Summarise Proust Competition was a farcical competition held by the comedy troupe Monty Python whose aim was to summarize In Search of Lost Time as succinctly as possible...